Comment Re:Arsehole (Score 1) 1051
"Yeah, Linus! As in, father of FOSS? Mt. Linux? Don't f*ck with me or I'll shove a penguin up your ass! LINUS!"
The ribbon UI is so awesome, that Visual Studio doesn't have it (thank God) So the people who actually *write Microsoft software* don't like the ribbon.
So there's that.
When notepad gets a ribbon -- that's when I start to have deep concern for Microsoft's design choices.
The fact that the "magic button" to close full screen apps is an archaic key combo from windows 3.1 is a key indicator of how bad this interface is. I mean alt -f4 is a great shortcut key, but for that to be the great "answer " for closing full screen apps. Yes, I count that as a fail.
How is alt-f4 an 'archaic fail'...? From windows 3.1 all the way up to windows 8, you can control everything/anything, keyboard only; fairly impressive from a design standpoint. Few other GUI based OSes can claim this long standing keyboard only functionality. You forget that circa windows 3.1 there weren't standardized input/mouse drivers, it was often a requirement to know how to operate the OS entirely from a select set of standardized keyboard types. If you were lucky enough to learn windows 3.1 using a keyboard, you should be thankful that they haven't changed the shortcuts almost 20 years later.
YouTube hosts LOTS of cat videos, maybe enough even to influence the number of cat purchases by animal lovers.
Remember, this is the same site that shows ADS before the TRAILER -- I wouldn't exactly say they have their priorities in order for box office revenue (or for any of their advertisers for that matter).
What I want, is something that can scan any 3d object and make a file to print it.
What I want is "Tea. Earl Grey... Hot"
"a system and method
FTFY.
They needed to realize that they could no longer sell commoditized items.
Thats a bunch of bologna. There are tons of 'protected' lines. Electronics especially, which have agreements with the distributor and manufacturer, to maintain minimum margins and MSRP as the advertised price. There is plenty of margin for these products. It IS profitable to run a brick and mortar, Target just doesn't like competing with the small segment of consumers that shop online. (Comparatively speaking, there are far fewer online transactions for goods than brick and mortar)
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail